Visualising Literacy and How to Teach It: A Guide to Developing Thinking Skills, Vocabulary and Imagination for 9-12 Year Olds

ISBN-13: 9781032025773 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 178 str.

Steve Bowkett; Tony Hitchman

Opis

This practical resource offers a selection of visuals, each accompanied by activities that give children practice in using their imaginations in different ways. Visualising Literacy not only explores creative and critical thinking skills but pays close attention to the over-arching thinking skill that we call imagination.

Spis treści

1. Using This Book and Introduction  2. Some Definitions3. Educational Benefits of Developing the Imagination  4. The Attitude  5. Mind Warmups  6. Picture Exploration – a Medley of Thinking Skills  7. Questioning with Confidence  8. Collecting Motifs  9. Colour Combinations  10. Subtle Distinctions  11. Sound Words  12. Submodalities  13. Step In – The Physical Dimension  14. What’s the Feeling  15. Two Anecdotes  16. Just Enough  17. Sensory Treasures  18. Spelling Strategies  19. Break State  20. Minimal Writing and Artful Vagueness  21. Cross-Matching Senses  22. Drawing Out Meaning  23. Point of View  24. Picture Masking  25. Beyond the Frame  26. Cinematic Method for Describing a Picture  27. Studying Pictures  28. Sensory Journey  29. Educational Value of the Sensory Journey  30. Vivid Particularities  31. Creative Conversations  32. Imagining Impossible Things  33. More Thought Experiments  34. Inspiration  35. A Medley of Visualisations  36. Reframing  37. Scrambletales  38. Linking Game  39. Descriptive Writing  40. Some Literary Devices for Descriptive Writing  41. Pictograms and Hieroglyphs  42. Letter Associations  43. Describing Phonemes  44. Interpreting Abstract Shapes  45. Venn Diagrams  46. Sliderman  47. Heads or Tails  48. Dice Journey  49. Controlling the Imagination  50. Tackling Text  51. Thoughts, Feelings, Memories and Dreams  25. Mindfulness 23. A Special Place  54. Imagination Beyond the Curriculum  References and Resources  Index